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sched/deadline: Improve the tracking of active utilization

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This patch implements a more theoretically sound algorithm for
tracking active utilization: instead of decreasing it when a
task blocks, use a timer (the "inactive timer", named after the
"Inactive" task state of the GRUB algorithm) to decrease the
active utilization at the so called "0-lag time".

Tested-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495138417-6203-3-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Luca Abeni
2017-05-18 22:13:29 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent e36d8677bf
commit 209a0cbda7
4 changed files with 276 additions and 15 deletions
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@@ -445,16 +445,33 @@ struct sched_dl_entity {
*
* @dl_yielded tells if task gave up the CPU before consuming
* all its available runtime during the last job.
*
* @dl_non_contending tells if the task is inactive while still
* contributing to the active utilization. In other words, it
* indicates if the inactive timer has been armed and its handler
* has not been executed yet. This flag is useful to avoid race
* conditions between the inactive timer handler and the wakeup
* code.
*/
int dl_throttled;
int dl_boosted;
int dl_yielded;
int dl_non_contending;
/*
* Bandwidth enforcement timer. Each -deadline task has its
* own bandwidth to be enforced, thus we need one timer per task.
*/
struct hrtimer dl_timer;
/*
* Inactive timer, responsible for decreasing the active utilization
* at the "0-lag time". When a -deadline task blocks, it contributes
* to GRUB's active utilization until the "0-lag time", hence a
* timer is needed to decrease the active utilization at the correct
* time.
*/
struct hrtimer inactive_timer;
};
union rcu_special {